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six years on the same farm. It is a step intermediate between the 

 temporary one year test and the permanently established station. 

 The longer period will allow of a greater elaboration and variety in 

 experiment than is possible under the present system of co-operative 

 tests; and withyom* assistance in placing suitable land at our disposal, 

 and the necessary retention of interest in the work over the required 

 period, there is no doubt that facts of great importance will result. 

 On such an area of ground, the effect of liming, sub-soiling, horse- 

 hoeing, different rates of seeding, different depths of seeding, 

 fallowing, rotative cropping and numerous other tests might be tried. 

 The inclusion of ditt'erent varieties of wheat, and various summer 

 forage crops, would more especially, if field results were co-ordinated 

 with laboratory investigations by analysis of both soils and crops, 

 afford data in a direction as yet untouched. 



Conclusion. 



And now I can close my remarks. In the facts I have placed 

 before you concerning the science I represent, there may be much 

 which might be interpreted as partial and egotistical. In speaking 

 of one's own work, it is difficult to avoid the appearance of such 

 features. If, however, I have succeeded in impressing you with the 

 belief that one science only, controls, in a marked degree, the position 

 which the agriculture of a country holds in the world, your whole 

 mental attitude towards science in its application to farming generally 

 might undergo some change ; and you might realise, as I wish you to 

 realise, that in the present strenuous competition of life, the posses- 

 sion of a trained intelligence and improved technical methods, is as 

 essential in your calling as it is in the other great spheres of the 

 world's activities. 



